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Gender differences in the skill content of jobs
Pető, Rita; Reizer, Balázs - 2021
evidence of workplace discrimination against women. …
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Discrimination in the Credential Society : An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Gaddis, S. Michael - 2015
major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
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The effects of professor gender on the post-graduation outcomes of female students
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2018
Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913023
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Effects of peer groups on the gender-wage gap and life after the MBA : evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers
Thomas, Mallika - 2024
Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor market outcomes. I find that a 10 percentage point...
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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch
Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006
We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317955
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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Labor outcomes during the transition from adolescence to adulthood : the role of personality, cognition, and shocks in Madagascar
Sahn, David E.; Villa, Kira M. - 2016
There is growing evidence that noncognitive skills affect economic, behavioral, and demographic outcomes in the developed world. However, little such evidence exists from developing countries. This paper estimates the joint effect of five specific personality traits and cognition on a sequence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580922
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic recession on less educated women's human capital : some projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311038
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Headstrong girls and dependent boys : gender differences in the labor market returns to child behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 76 (2023) 1, pp. 112-134
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